Aiming site: New media curator Steve Dietz points out Lynn Hershman's artwork America's Finest, a great reminder of what's at both ends of the warmaker's guns:

The user aims at a specific spot or an object within the installation’s space. With the specially prepared rifle, the user sees not only what he/she is aiming at but also himself/herself. In this project, the wars, weapons and media that have touched and burdened our lives blend into a unified whole. “America’s Finest” makes use of different sounds and mixing/selection techniques as well as a Targa Board, specially developed software programmed in C. The rifle can pivot a full 360°, whereby built-in sensors recognize when a user picks it up and aims at a target.

Earlier: Copenhagen artist Jakob Boeskov's ID-Sniper rifle, a product he convinced Chinese law enforcement could be "used to implant a GPS-microchip in the body of a human being, using a high powered sniper rifle as the long distance injector."